In its time this movie must have been a mind-blowing experience. It's still worth seeing for its overall bravura and the performances of Michael Gothard and (in a lesser role) Mona Hammond. But in 2022 it has little we haven't seen many times over. The experimental style, the critique of capitalist exploitation, the existential dread, the failures of history...you know the drill. It's all as true as it ever was, of course, but there are subtler and less pretentious ways of telling the story now. The film is also frighteningly sexist, in a way that was acceptable in the late 1960s but no longer. And dare I say it, the protagonist's emotional story arc was hackneyed even then. I'll admit, though, that the ending was a genuine surprise, the most thoughtful part of the film for me.

I remember seeing this rather amazing film at - I think - the ICA or possibly Everyman in 1968. The story concerned a ypung man who decides to commit suicide publicly on television. He was played by Michael Gothard who did also appear in British horror films. I remember the abattoir sequence as it was accompanied on the soundtrack by a track from an album called Indo Jazz Fusions. There was also a scene shot in the large pedestrian prcinct close to St Pauls Cathedral. I just loved it as it was so unusual and different at a time when British films were so boring and dull in the main.

Does anybody own the negative and or 35mm copy for it to get onto DVD?